If you have Translation Editors for both of the projects please update their permissions. It’s now possible to add Translation Editors to sub-projects like BuddyPress or bbPress. 🎁 (If you found something broken please report it at the comments or in #1101.)

I finished translating the entire bbPress 2.5.x Vietnamese language pack in a .PO file. Now that I would like to upload, it seems as though the option to uploading is not available for me as a contributor. Can you either let me join the bbPress Validator team (temporarily) and / or let me know the assigned Vietnamese validator to whom I can send the .PO file to? Entering the translations one string at a time online (more than 1,000 strings) is not practical nor doable for me since I am on and off the Net very frequently due to my job. Since there is currently no bbPress Vietnamese translation, this .PO file is perfect to upload all at once.

Thank you so much!
Brian

P.S: I am thinking of translating other components such as BuddyPress or WordPress and many others in due time. Will I need to put out requests similar to this request every time when I need help in uploading the .PO to the appropriate component(s)?

Thanks for translating bbPress. Can you send me the .PO file via email rilwis[at]gmail.com? I will import the file for you.

By the way, the website translate.wordpress.org is a place where we can collaborate on translating WordPress. I suggest you use this website instead of using another software to make your own .PO file, because you won’t have translated string (or updated ones) from others who are translating. If everyone uses .PO file, we can’t validate what’s the better translation.

I just saw the bbPress translations being updated while updating to WordPress 3.9.1 which made me very happy. When I then updated a multi-site instance to 3.9.1 (with also bbPress activated in the network) there were no updates of the bbPress language files.

Not sure I get it. Why would a WordPress update change bbPress’ language files? Remember that before bbPress releases a new version, you can always export those from Translate and update bbPress. Or am I seeing this wrong?

I wrote here few days ago, but I don’t know where is the message. Never mind.

I noticed that the Macedonian WP translation was a bit out of date (last release is 3.6 – August 2013) and the team isn’t active anymore. The local WP web page isn’t active too. I want to continue the translation support for WP and also for the others sub-project. So, can I become validator for Macedonian language?

I am writing this because my friends and I (almost) translated the bbPress part in Macedonian, because we want to use it into our local project.

@Ze I’m a validator and I’m running mk.wordpress.org. I’m trying to build 3.8.1 but I get error that says “/tmp/rosettaG1e3Yx/mk_MK/messages/mk_MK.mo couldn’t be copied to /tmp/rosettaIYuU5R/wordpress/wp-content/languages/mk_MK.mo”. I’m using revision # 27090 (the latest)

How are we to know what the trunk projects gives us when it’s such a disarray? All these projects has been requested multiple times by different people. Do we really have to nag every time new projects need to be created?

What happened to the discussed planning for polyglots? Are we going anywhere at all?

It’s since polyglots platform is born that quite at every release I ask to have the platform updated and every time i got the promise in future will be. Since now nothing happened, every time we are asking for branch and I REALLY can’t understand why after 3.8 string freeze the relative brache didn’t appear. It’s an hystorically habit to think to WP project more from a english centric point of view cause large parte of sites use it in english but this lack of care for polyglots it’s first an uncare for the hundreds of people that belive in WP and spend theyr time to make it available ofr his country people.

Looks like Nacins is the one that always make the new brach (or I’m wrong?) Maybe it’s time to delegate to someone else cause he’s a lead developer and i thought he has very busy days.

Maybe postponing for a week or two the nex release an do sone love to make the necessary automatic stuff to have the polyglot platform always up to date easily it’s not something that sound so bad.

Guys, chill. Please. The “Development” branch is 3.8. It is frozen. There are no string changes being pushed to it from trunk right now. After the initial point release, the next steps are to create the new branch, do a mass export and import of the current strings to populate this branch, and re-start string harvesting. We’ve been doing this pretty much the same way for years now. Heck, I’m actually following Nikolay’s own instructions in doing so. Why this is done is for a number of reasons:

A lot of locales are building versions in the time between the major release and first minor release, and moving around branches can disrupt that process and make it more difficult for those translators.

A lot of strings sometimes quickly change early in a cycle. Not all of these are necessarily intended, and a lot of them will change very quickly. I don’t want to give you guys extra work for strings that will disappear in a week. Only after a few weeks of “alpha” does it make sense to release strings. I feel very bad about giving you extra work.

It gives all of you a much-needed break.

3.8.1 was released late last week, and a lot of locales have now acted on 3.8.1, so I’ll be doing the steps I’ve described above this week. We’ll continue to do it this way until GlotPress gains any kind of cross-project string syncing or branching.

I will update both BuddyPress and bbPress this week as well.

In the meantime, I have renamed “Development” to “3.8.x” so everyone is clear what the source of the strings are. Sorry for the confusion there.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain this all, and make the necessary changes to the WP project!

That being said, the BuddyPress and bbPress projects still a few versions, which confuses translator who which to work on currently-stable versions rather than on the Dev version. BP is 3 versions behing, bbP 2 versions behind.

This translates as …
“Hello
I spent a good time to review, correct, standardize and improve the consistency of the translation of bbPress, but I do not know how to validate the changes?

I know many other translation systems such as Transifex with which I translated into French Disqus, pUpload and Elgg.org but GlotPress? how to get permission to proofread?

Thank you to the entire community
Emmanuel”

Dear Emmanuel,

as far as I know the Polyglot group consists of a bunch of more experienced users that have been given status as Validators. They check translation proposals and acknowledge when they feel the translation to fit the needs. Don’t ask me though how they get elected as Validators. I haven’t found any information on that before. (With which I don’t want to question the selection process – I just don’t know myself how it works.)

Hi,
I am translating bbPress 2.4.x package to Hebrew. I have translated quite a bit of it and would like to share and collaborate this effort and maybe translate more plugins. (I already use the translation in 1 of my clients sites)
I am new to this and have questions about the translation issue.
Thanks,
Yehuda Tiram
AtarimTR

For a project that includes a forum, I have completed the french translation for bbPress and also improved (at least I hope) a lot of already translated strings so that they respect more the context and the original english meaning.

Update: Mathieu put this message in many places, and that put him in contact with me (French admin). We are currently discussing this by e-mails, and I’ll put the output of this in this threads. Cheers!